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Any recomendations for other presidential films

posted 14 years ago by oscars075-1
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I love films based on presidents, whether biopic or fiction

I'm a pretty big film buff so I've seen a bunch that I named below. But I like all films and there's only so many hours in a day lol so I probably have missed some great ones. I'm also only 25 so I've probably missed some of the older political films. Could someone be kind enough to point out some good films that I have missed.

Nixon
JFK
Kennedy (TV mini-series)
All the President's Men
Path to War
The Day Reagan Was Shot
W.
Thirteen Days
The Contender
Frost/Nixon
RFK
Bobby
Kissinger and Nixon
PT-109
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Truman
Dave
Recount
Primary Colors
The American President
Absolute Power
Man of the Year
In the Line of Fire
A Special Relationship
Murder at 1600
Air Force One
Independence Day
Mars Attacks
Vantage Point
Speechless

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[–] pe81171 14 years ago

John Adams
Dr. Strangelove
Rough Riders
The Wind and the Lion
The Missiles of October
JFK: Reckless Youth
Sunrise At Campobello
Eleanor and Franklin
World War II - When Lions Roared
Warm Springs
Young Mr. Lincoln
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Gore Vidal's Lincoln
Hiroshima
Give Em Hell, Harry!
Seven Days in May
Fail-safe
Advise and Consent
LBJ: The Early Years
George Washington
The Crossing
Ike - Countdown to D-Day
Backstairs at the White House
The President's Lady
1776
Amistad
The Final Days
The Rat Pack
Wilson
Deterrence
MacArthur
The Reagans
The Kennedys of Massachusetts
Jefferson in Paris
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot
Elvis Meets Nixon

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[–] nikkilynn1982 14 years ago

My favorite was "Kennedy" the 3 part mini-series that came out in 1983, marking the 20th anniversary of the assassination. I think that of all the actors to portray John Kennedy, Martin Sheen was the best. He looked like him and he had the accent down to a "T". It's one of the only movies that actually re-create the assassination in detail (including the infamous ride in the convertible and the slow motion shooting that has blood splashing Jackie in the face -- very graphic and very factual.)

[–] Thamauturge 14 years ago

^Martin Sheen is a great actor, and I have no doubt that he pulled it off (I haven't seen it yet) but judging by the pictures, he really doesn't look very much like the real John F. Kennedy IMO.

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[–] mobile707 14 years ago

I saw Martin Sheen's "Kennedy" miniseries when it was originally broadcast on TV, and his performance was impressive. I have to say, though, that Bruce Greenwood's work in "Thirteen Days" blows everyone else out of the water. Really, he was absolutely brilliant in that, it's a shame that Kevin Costner's rather hammy Boston-Irish accent got in the way, or I think Greenwood's performance would have been more widely recognized.

[–] Hancock_the_Superb 14 years ago

Brian Keith's performance as Theodore Roosevelt in The Wind and the Lion is probably my favorite screen portrayal of a President. "Why spoil the beauty of the thing with legality?"

"I may not punish you for treason, but I could slap you for stupidity."

[–] MurfTO 11 years ago

The Man (1972)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
Being There (1979)
Winter Kills (1979)
Love Field (1992)
Guarding Tess (1994)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
Iron Sky (2012)
Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013)